25 Years of Wisdom, A New Chapter Begins: The 25th China Private Equity Annual Forum to Launch in Shenzhen

A technological wave is surging forward, profoundly reshaping the industrial landscape. Frontier sectors such as artificial intelligence, life sciences, and new energy are accelerating their integration and iteration, propelling global innovation into an explosive phase and injecting fresh vitality and boundless possibilities into the venture capital and private equity industry. Against this backdrop, the 25th China Private Equity Annual Conference, hosted by Zero2IPO Holdings (01945.HK) and PE Daily, and co-hosted by Huitong Financial Holdings and Nanshan Strategic Emerging Investment, will be grandly held in Shenzhen from December 2 to 5, 2025.

This conference serves not only as the annual “intellectual anchor” for China’s venture capital and private equity industry, but also marks a historic milestone in Zero2IPO’s 25th anniversary. Over the past quarter-century of steadfast commitment and deep cultivation, Zero2IPO has witnessed the evolution of China’s private equity market from its nascent stages to full prosperity. Centered on the theme “Towards the Future, Empowering Renewal,” the event has been comprehensively upgraded into the multi-day, multi-scenario, and multi-dimensional “Zero2IPO·Nanshan VC Week.” With a refreshed content layout and experiential format, it creates an exclusive annual carnival for venture capital professionals. More than 1,000 investors, entrepreneurs, and innovation leaders will convene here, injecting new vitality into the VC ecosystem through intellectual exchange and collaborative value creation.

On the opening day, the conference will authoritatively release the “2025 China Private Equity Development Report,” leveraging comprehensive data to review market dynamics over the past year and forecast trends across investment sectors for 2026. As the central thread of the event, the “Innovation & Investment Trends Forum” will feature a series of high-density, high-quality keynote speeches and roundtable discussions. These sessions will delve into practical topics such as cyclical competition, sector selection, exit strategies, and the time-value compounding effect in early-stage investing. The conference will also focus on hotspots including the rapid rise of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), deep breakthroughs in hard technology, and corporate global expansion, dissecting for attendees the underlying logic and strategic approaches for breaking through barriers throughout the entire investment cycle—from strategy formulation to successful exits. Against the macro backdrop of restructuring global economic patterns and China’s pursuit of high-quality development, these discussions address not only capital flows but also anchor the future direction of industrial development.

In response to technology-driven industrial transformation, this year’s conference features two specialized vertical summits, delving deep into the “industrial heartland” of frontier sectors.

“AI Summit” will extend from the foundational “computing power revolution” to the application-level “industry empowerment,” focusing on breakthrough pathways in embodied intelligence and practices for deploying AI in the physical world. It will deeply analyze the convergence opportunities of “AI + hard tech” and deconstruct the investment logic behind technological breakthroughs.

“The Innovative Drug and Life Sciences Summit” focuses on key advancements in the biotechnology sector, featuring discussions on AI-driven drug discovery, cell and gene therapy, medical device innovation, and the ecosystem of innovative pharmaceuticals, thereby providing investors with precise insights into track evaluation and strategic problem-solving.

As a key component of the “Innovation & Investment Carnival,” the conference’s exchanges extend far beyond the venue. A series of carefully curated interactive activities transform intellectual sparks into genuine connections. “Innovation & Investment Talk” creates an engaging and unique atmosphere for the venture capital and investment community, while the “X-Day” Xili Lake Roadshow Society’s Kickstarter Special Session on Globalization of Technological Innovation uncovers high-potential projects across markets. The “Innovation & Investment Carnival Sci-Tech Exhibition” further infuses the event with technological energy, offering all-day access to themed exhibition areas that provide up-close experiences with cutting-edge technologies and present a panoramic view of future lifestyles driven by science and innovation.

To break the limitations of “on-site venue interactions,” the conference has curated a diverse range of experiential activities: participants can sweat it out and forge friendships through badminton at the Investment Community Friendly Match, while events such as the Investment Community Wonderful Night and X-Day Night provide immersive settings for in-depth dialogue, facilitating precise networking and connections.

These components collectively form a complete ecological loop of “Communication–Showcase–Discovery–Collaboration,” enabling every participant to truly realize the vision of “communicating through events and collaborating through communication” in more relaxed and diverse settings. The highly anticipated 2025 VENTURE 50 Awards Ceremony will also take place during the conference, witnessing the glory moments of high-growth enterprises from the perspective of annual investors.

From 2000 to 2025, the past 25 years have chronicled the “growth story” of China’s venture capital and private equity industry, as well as Zero2IPO’s “journey of companionship” alongside the sector. The 25th Annual Conference on Equity Investment in China serves not only as a review and tribute to the industry’s development over the past quarter-century, but also as an exploration and launchpad for “innovative opportunities” in the next cycle. This December in Shenzhen, let us gather in this city of innovation, using capital as the bridge and technology as the sail, to jointly write a “new chapter” for China’s venture capital and private equity industry.

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